Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
Joseph JoubertJoseph Joubert It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Joseph JoubertJoseph Joubert Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
Joseph JoubertJoseph Joubert Children need models rather than critics.
Joseph JoubertJoseph Joubert How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
Joseph JoubertJoseph Joubert Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
Joseph JoubertJoseph Joubert Space is the stature of God.
Joseph JoubertJoseph Joubert Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
Joseph JoubertJoseph Joubert The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
Joseph JoubertJoseph Joubert All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
Joseph JoubertJoseph Joubert You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Joseph JoubertJoseph Joubert The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
Joseph JoubertJoseph Joubert To teach is to learn twice.
Joseph JoubertJoseph Joubert Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
Joseph JoubertJoseph Joubert The passions of the young are vices in the old.
Joseph JoubertJoseph Joubert Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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